Bible Verses about “widows and orphans”
The Bible contains 13 verses about widows and orphans across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”
“"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.”
“"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”
“If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;”
“and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”
“A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”
“Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'”
“"Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.”
“'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'”
“Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,”
“the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.”